6/9/17

I.B. History of the Americas:

1) Notes ("The Cold War Consensus Unravels")
2) Finish Vietnam video
--Continue 2-sided notes
--A follow-up assignment will be on Monday

3) Homework: Textbook, pages 867-873 ("The Long Road Home, 1968-75")
Focus your reading on:  a) Tet Offensive  b) Robert Kennedy  c) Campaign/Election of 1968  d) "Silent Majority"  e) Vietnamization  f) My Lai Massacre  g) Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT)


American Pop Culture:

1) 1990s Oral History assignment and missing work reminder

2) 1990s Movie ("Reality Bites")-Day 1
--With note guide

6/8/17

I.B. History of the Americas:

1) Notes ("Into the Quagmire, 1945-68")
2) Video: "Dear America: Letters Home From Vietnam" (Day 1)
2-sided notes: a) Specific scenes or quotes that give us a picture of the Vietnam War combat soldier's experience.
b) Specific examples showing the "message", or bias, of the filmmakers (Selection of clips, music, quotes, etc)

3) Homework: Textbook, pages 856-860 ("The Cold War Consensus Unravels")
Focus your reading on:  a) Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)/Port Huron Statement  b) Free Speech Movement at Berkeley  c) Resistance to the draft  d) Hippies

6/7/17

I.B. History of the Americas:

1) Finish notes from yesterday ("Enacting the Liberal Agenda") and today's notes ("The Widening Struggle for Civil Rights")
2) Graded Sharing on MLK/Malcolm X OPVL

3) Homework: Textbook, pages 850-856 ("Into the Quagmire, 1945-68")
Focus your reading on:  a) Vietminh/Ho Chi Minh  b) Dien Bien Phu/Geneva Accords  c) Domino Theory  d) Ngo Dinh Diem  e) National Liberation Front (NLF)/Vietcong  f) Gulf of Tonkin Resolution  g) Operation Rolling Thunder


American Pop Culture:

1) 1990s Oral History reminder

2) 1990s Music (Day 2)
--Finish note guide

6/6/17

I.B. History of the Americas:

1) Finish yesterday's JFK notes and then: ("New Tactics in the Civil Rights Movement")
2) OPVL on MLK/Malcolm X (Lab Day)
--Individually, analyze the 2 documents and do the write-up following OPVL Guidelines.
--Graded Sharing tomorrow

3) Homework: Textbook, pages 860-867 ("The Widening Struggle for Civil Rights")
Focus your reading on:  a) Malcolm X  b) Black Power/Black Panthers  c) Cesar Chavez  d) American Indian Movement (AIM)  e) Women's Rights Movement/National Organization for Women (NOW)  f) Women's Liberation Movement

6/5/17

I.B. History of the Americas:

1) Notes ("The Emergence of Civil Rights as a National Issue") and ("American Society During the Baby Boom")
2) "Extra" Notes ("John F. Kennedy and the Politics of Expectation") "Extra Info": Pages 830-836 Focus your reading on: a) 1960 presidential campaign/election  b) "Flexible response"  c) Bay of Pigs Invasion  d) Construction of the Berlin Wall  e) Peace Corps  f) Alliance for Progress  g) Cuban Missile Crisis h) Space Race

3) Homework: Textbook, pages 836-846 ("New Tactics in the Civil Rights Movement") and ("Enacting the Liberal Agenda")
Focus your reading on:  a) Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)/Sit-in Movement  b) Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)/Freedom Rides  c) March on Washington  d) Civil Rights Act of 1964/Voting Rights Act of 1965  e) 1964 presidential election  f) Great Society programs  g) War on Poverty/Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO)



American Pop Culture:

1) Reminder about 90s Oral History assignment

2) 1990s Music (Day 1)
--With note guide

6/2/17

I.B. History of the Americas:

1) Test 5

2) Homework: Textbook, pages 804-807; 820-825 ("The Emergence of Civil Rights as a National Issue") and ("American Life During the Baby Boom")
Focus your reading on:  a) Brown vs. Board of Education  b) Montgomery Bus Boycott  c) Baby Boomers  d) Role of women in the 50s  e) The "Beats"

6/1/17

I.B. History of the Americas:

1) Notes ("The Cold War at Home")
2) Post-WWII Role Play presentations
--Complete Evaluation form
--Audience asks 1 question each

3) Homework: Study for Test 5



American Pop Culture:

1) 1990s Oral History assignment reminder

2) 90s TV (Day 2) ("Ellen") and ("Seinfeld")
--Finish note guide